POLS 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Emma Goldman, Papal States, Coverture

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2150
• Professor: Carol Dauda

Document Summary

The first wave: enlightenment thinking and liberalism, primacy of human reason, rejection of transcendental order, observation only source of knowledge. Can only know through senses world is experienced reason disembodied from nature and opposed to it human observing subject, objective knowledge: liberalism, individualism: Individual subjects rational free progressive - knowledge leads to change. Reason can determine political system rational basis for political order . Not eternal but conventional and so can change: first wave feminist thinkers. Did not question sex roles: women and reason, women and the rights of man. As human beings women have reason: subjugation of women. Explanation for subordination no longer justified only reason can determine what one is. Education solves the problem leads to public reason must be universal education. The first wave movement: demands of the movement: Right to vote right to property right to education right to speak and write: legal rights (coverture) and suffrage a struggle, especially in uk, us.